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I bought it for $1299 (sale price in February) for the super bowl.
I did research for 2-3 months and this was the best deal for 4K resolution and lumens. You could do A LOT worse in the $999 range.
Blackout curtains will definitely will optimize the experience though it's not totally necessary.
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This was my first projector and it was between the TK800 and the Viewsonic PX747-4K. My plan was to set this up in my living room in addition to my really old 42" Samsung. I had the Samsung mounted on the wall and I bought a manual pulldown screen (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1 [amazon.com]) and hung it from the ceiling so that it pulls down in front of the TV when we use the projector. I have the projector on an Ikea cabinet behind the couches.
The setup is not ideal as I would like to have the projector mounted on the ceiling and a fixed frame screen on the wall. I can probably get the projector mounted at some point but it currently works.
My goal for the projector was to buy a high lumen one because I wanted this set up in the living room which has an open concept into the kitchen so there was a fair amount of ambient light. I actually wanted to buy the Viewsonic as there was a deal at the time (I think it was on sale for either $800 or $900) but i procrastinated and the sale ended. I researched and found that people had good results with a refurb unit from the manufacturer through their eBay store. I ended up with the Benq because their warranty on refurbs were a little better than Viewsonics.
Overall, I'm very please with the Benq but it is my first projector and I'm sure that there are things that could be tweaked to improve the experience. It is indeed very bright and I would say that 3,000 lumens is enough for low to moderate ambient light.
Color-wise, I had to tweak the settings around (I'm not an expert at all. There are services out there that you can pay somebody to come set up your projector color settings) and I think I've done a decent job. There are times where I feel like the color is a little off and it's usually when there is a gradient and I feel like the gradient is very obvious to me when it shouldn't be (if that made any sense). Depending on your lamp setting, it can make it look washed out if you're on bright. You may want the bright setting if you have ambient light, but I believe there are ways around the washed out look by using ambient-light rejecting screen material.
Sound - I can't comment much since I have the projector hooked up through my receiver, but there have been times where my receiver is acting up and I have to use the projector's speakers. It's a tiny speaker. Don't expect anything amazing.
Video - Again, this is my first projector and I was coming from a 10+ 42" Samsung TV (I think it's a 1080i??), so anything would look better. I think the video is amazing. I didn't own any UHD/4K movies (blu-ray or digital), so I purposefully went out and spent a silly amount of money on 4K movies because I had to experience this. Depending on how far you're sitting, you can definitely tell the difference between 720p, 1080p and 4K. Having said that, I think you have to have a plan or already own a lot of 4K content to make this worth it and you also have to have the room set up to appreciate the difference. To be honest, you probably would be fine with a 1080p projector in my setting but I wanted the 4k (or fake-4k). Either way, I think the video was pretty good (the movie that I went out and bought was Captain America: The Winter Soldier because it's such a great movie. I thought it looked fantastic but I didn't have any other 4k screens to compare).
Setup - It was pretty easy to set up. Plug it in, plug in HDMI and fiddle around with the source, color settings, etc. One thing to point out is that it only has vertical keystone adjustment. I honestly don't know if it is common or uncommon to have horizontal keystone adjustment but I did not need it. Additionally, in my research, it seemed that the overall consensus was to avoid keystoning if possible as it does decrease the brightness.
Again, overall, I'm very happy with this projector. For the cost of a very nice 65"+ 4K TV, I was able to get a 4K projector and a 135" screen. It just took some research and legwork to get it done.
There is only one issue I don't like and that is the light bleed that occurs around the edges of my screen. There is a very obvious amount of light that projects all the way around my screen. I have been unable to adjust it out. Maybe because of the distance of my projector but I know others have reported this. I am not sure if they fixed that in the M version.
Sometimes the issue is that 4k60 won't work on an hdmi cable over 12 feet. 4k30 will. That's why u build a projector with hdmi arc out.
While I think that it could work as an outdoor project (depends on time of day and if you're in the shade), I think that there are probably cheaper options, unless you really want to use a 4K projector for outdoor use.
Going from 1080p to 4K is less noticeable but still there. But, if you don't own much 4K content and aren't too picky, I think to save a little money, a 1080p projector is fine, but remember that this is my first projector, so I don't have the experience of owning "just" a 1080p projector.
There is only one issue I don't like and that is the light bleed that occurs around the edges of my screen. There is a very obvious amount of light that projects all the way around my screen. I have been unable to adjust it out. Maybe because of the distance of my projector but I know others have reported this. I am not sure if they fixed that in the M version.
I did quickly look it up and this might be helpful to you (apologies if you've already tried these): https://entertainmentde
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That was just my experience last year. My new fancy 4K projector and 4K receiver would not do 4k60 using any cord over 12 feet (tried 6 expensive brands of hdmi cords). The 22gbps channel for 4K is not forgiving so u put the video source as close as you can to the projector, then arc out the sound. For anyone with a projector trying to get 4k60 (4K at 60 frames per second), you may have a similar experience with long cords. Again 4k30 worked just fine at long distances
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As a quick follow up in case you were interested, that WiMiUS model has updated their coupon to be $50 off on Amazon. Pretty solid deal but they will post that coupon every few weeks from what I can tell